Jean de La Fontaine Quotes - Page 4

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• The sign brings customers.

  Jean de La Fontaine

  Business, Customers

  Jean de La Fontaine (1806*). “La Fontaine's Fables: Now First Translated from the French...”

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• One often has need of one inferior to himself.

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  Needs, Inferiority, Inferiors

  "Fables (Book II)". Book by Jean de La Fontaine, 1668-1694.

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• A pessimist and an optimist, so much the worse; so much the better.

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  Attitude, Pessimist, Optimist

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• Women keep no secrets, and I know many men, who are women in this regard.

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  Men, Secret, Regard

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• The argument of the strongest is always the best.

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  Argument, Strongest

  "Fables (Book 1)". Book by Jean de La Fontaine, 1668-1694.

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• O love, when thou gettest dominion over us, we may bid good-by to prudence.

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  Love, May, Dominion

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• There is no road of flowers leading to glory.

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  Flower, Glory

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• What a wonderful thing it is to have a good friend. He identifies your innermost desires, and spares you the embarrassment of disclosing them to him yourself.

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  Good Friend, Desire, Wonderful

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• But every one has a besetting sin to which he returns.

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  Weakness, Return, Sin

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• We ought never to scoff at the wretched, for who can be sure of continued happiness?

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  Misery, Wretched, Ought

  "Fables", V. 17, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p. 517-18, 1922.

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• One should stick to the sort of thing for which one was made; I tried to be an herbalist, Whereas I should keep to the butchers trade.

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  Sticks, Made, Should

  Jean de La Fontaine (1964). “The fables of La Fontaine”

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• It is good to be charitable; but to whom? That is the point. As to the ungrateful, there is not one who does not at last die miserable.

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  Ungrateful, Doe, Lasts

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• One should oblige everyone to the extent of one's ability. One often needs someone smaller than oneself.

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  Needs, Should, Ability

  "The Fables of La Fontaine: Book II". Book by Jean de La Fontaine, 1668.

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• Le mensonge et les vers de tout temps sont amis. Lies and literature have always been friends.

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  Lying, Literature

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• We are never content with our lot.

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• There's nothing sweeter than a real friend: Not only is he prompt to lend— An angler delicate, he fishes The very deepest of your wishes, And spares your modesty the task His friendly aid to ask. A dream, a shadow, wakes his fear, When pointing at the object dear.

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  Dream, Real, Wish

  Jean de La Fontaine (1841). “Fables of La Fontaine”, p.82

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• Be advised that all flatterers live at the expense of those who listen to them.

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  Human Nature, Expenses, Flatterer

  "The Fables of La Fontaine: Book I". Book by Jean de La Fontaine, 1668.

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• You've tried to reform what will not learn. Shut doors on traits that you wish were dead; They will open a window and return.

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  Doors, Wish, Reform

  Jean de La Fontaine (1964). “The fables of La Fontaine”

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• Our condition never satisfies us; the present is always the worst. Though Jupiter should grant his request to each, we should continue to importune him.

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  Jupiter, Complaining, Should

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• It is double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.
  [Fr., Car c'est double plaisir de tromper le trompeur.]

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  Car, Deceit, Deceiving

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• The best laid plot can injure its maker, and often a man's perfidy will rebound on himself.

  Jean de La Fontaine

  Men, Plot, Rebound

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• Better to rely on one powerful king than on many little princes.

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  Kings, Powerful, Littles

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• Rogues are always found out in some way. Whoever is a wolf will act like a wolf, that is most certain.

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  Way, Rogues, Found

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• All roads lead to Rome, but our antagonists think we should choose different paths.

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  Thinking, Rome, Different

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• It is impossible to please all the world and one's father.

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  Boyfriend, Daughter, Father

  "Fables (Book III)". Book by Jean de La Fontaine, 1668-1694.

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